Private chef service at your villa in Tuscany

Arianna –
We were beyond pleased with out experience for the dinners in our villa with Daniela and Natalia! The food was amazing and the service was exceptional – we would recommend them to anyone! We would love to give you the highest ratings – let me know where I can send them. We will definitely recommend! Also, can we get the recipe for the cauliflower dish we had? So happy we found you!!!
Best,
Laura

Morning Arianna,

We have certainly been blessed with wonderful weather for our visit to your beautiful Tuscany countryside! Our time here has been a real treat that was capped off with a delightful evening shared by Signora’s Ester and Montserrat. Our time with both of them was wonderful and educational. The meal was excellent! Both were so warm and welcoming. I was sad I am not fluent in Italian so that I could have been able to communicate with Ester better.
Would Signora Ester be willing to share the recipes that we made so that we would be able to have a “dinner of Italy” once we return home?
We are sad to see our time here coming to an end and look forward to returning someday to once again see the beauty and splendor of Tuscany!

Appreciatively,

Victoria

Arianna,

Thank you so much for all your help and patience in working with me to plan our Thanksgiving dinner in Tuscany – it was amazing!   Everyone had a wonderful time and the team was great.  We learned a lot from Veronica and Danielle!

Thank you again,

Robin

Hello Ariana, we wanted you to know that we had a wonderful time at the Tuscan cooking class on the 26th. Rita Told us that if we requested so, you would email us the recipes in English.  Also, on Sept 24th we had a wonderful meal prepared at the Hilton villa by Laura and her helper.  Would it be possible to Also have their recipes for ravioli in sage butter sauce, tiramisu and the chocolate pear tart.  We have been enjoying tiramisu in many restaurants since our arrival and all think that served at the villa was the very best so far!  My email is xxxxxxx@gmail.com

Thanks much!  Jan

Dear Arianna

Now that we are back home after a glorious week in Tuscany I wanted to thank you for arranging your cooks to provide us with such marvellous meals on Sunday and Friday. We all had a fabulous week at il Granaio and amazing Nyg

the real highlights were those meals. They inspired our children who took it in turns to cater on the remaining evenings to produce some great meals also!!

With thanks and all good wishes to you and your team

Robert

Dear Arianna,

I just wanted to reiterate how pleased we were with your services, especially Laura and Caterina, they are a delightful twosome! I will certainly recommend your company to other interested parties…perhaps a return visit for ourselves! I have included a photo of my family and one of Laura and Caterina.

Grazie Mille.

Margaret

Chef and English speaking assistant at a private villa near Lucca for a cooking service and dinner

Dear Arianna

Now that we are back home after a glorious week in Tuscany I wanted to thank you for arranging your cooks to provide us with such marvellous meals on Sunday and Friday. We all had a fabulous week at il Granaio and amazing Nyg the real highlights were those meals. They inspired our children who took it in turns to cater on the remaining evenings to produce some great meals also!!

With thanks and all good wishes to you and your team

Robert

Hi,

I am writing to thank you very much for such memorable experiences on our recent holiday in Tuscany. I am part of The Anson family who had chefs come to our villa and who did the cooking class. We were so lucky to have Ester and Anna-Lisa come to our villa. They were such fun and cooked the most amazing 4 course meal for us, it was such a fabulous night to celebrate my mother in laws 70th birthday. We have some great photos and memories. Then we did the cooking class at the farm with Ester and Massimo. The setting is so perfect and again we had such amazing fun with Ester. She is so friendly and happy and is the best cook. We cooked a fabulous 3 course lunch and then the rest of our family came and ate it with us in the converted barn. Again we have the best memories of this and can’t thank your team enough for their professionalism. It was so well organised and yet relaxed. I will be writing a review on Trip Advisor to rave about you. Since returning home we have been able to recreate the dishes taught to us which is fabulous, we get to each authentic Italian food in our own home. Please thank Ester so much from all of us,

Kind Regards,

Elaine

Ester and Elisa serving dinner for the 70th birthday of a guest staying at a Tuscan country cottage in July 2017

Dear Arianna,
I had planned to give you some feedback sooner and I’m sorry that I got sidetracked upon our return from our Italy trip.

We really loved the picnic part of the event that you arranged. The site perfectly captured the rustic/romantic atmosphere that I was trying to capture. The local owners and the chef you arranged (as well as her food basket) were absolutely outstanding. I’ve entered a 5-star review on TripAdvisor, and I hope you’ll pass along my appreciation to the other folks involved!

We wish you all the best!
John

Arianna & Friends is a wonderful company with with a wide array of services. My husband and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary at the Hilton Grand Vacation Club in Tuscany. We used Arianna & Friends for two events – private chef in villa and cheese and olive oil tour. Daniella came to our villa and made us a an authentic Italian meal from scratch with items fresh from the farmers market that morning! It was absolutely delicious, but even more wonderful was the company and culture brought to our own villa that evening.
Luca took my husband and I on a private tour and tasting of a local EVOO mill and separately a cheese farm where we had an incredible and filling lunch, which included excellent wine! It was so personalized and we truly experienced the life and culture of the Tuscan locals. Can’t wait to go back and we will only book with Arianna & Friends! Looking forward to it…It looks like we’ll be back this summer!!!

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Arianna,
Thank you so much for our help with our trip last week. Everything was fabulous. We ALL loved the chefs that came to our villa to make dinner for the girls. The food was great and the ladies were awesome. Please share our satisfaction with everything with them. It was perfect.

We also loved the cooking classes. You mentioned you would share the recipes with us so that would be great if you could forward them to me. I’ll pass out to the others. Also, I don’t know if you will share but the ravioli and the wild boar as well as the pine nut custard the chefs made at our villa would be fun to try to recreate here so if you share, those recipes would be great too.

Thanks again for everything – I will recommend your services to anyone I know going to that area and I hope to return to the exact same place soon. Have a good weekend

Cyndi

Dear Ariann,

I’m so sorry I didn’t get the opportunity to thank you in person on Tuesday night for creating such a wonderful evening for my husband’s birthday dinner. The food was amazing and the beautifully laid table etc just added to the ambience. We all had a wonderful time. Thank you again.

I will be sure to pass on your details to any of my friends that holiday in this area.

Kind regards

Mel

An impression of september 10th….. (photo)

A family cooking class with lots of foods and wines

Hi Massimo,
Thank you for a lovely evening. It was the best way to start our holiday. My parents were thrilled and talked about the evening many times during our stay. We will recommend you to our friends who decide to come to Tuscany! We voted for the best food we had in Italy and you won by a mile.

We were going to come and visit you at your office a few times, but the office was closed.
Thanks for all your tips. We drove around a lot and saw many beatiful places. The rain didn´t bother us in such lovely sceneries.

I will send you pictures as soon as I´ll get them on to my computer.

We would love to stay in touch.

Yours, Anu&Harri

Dear Arianna,

We are back in Paris, but we think about our two weeks at the villa often. We had a wonderful vacation. And Veronica and Paolo did a wonderful job. They were not just competent and smart, they were terribly attentive and kind.

Thank you. The Wiesendangers, all 13 of them.

Massimo – Thanks again for all your help during our stay in Tuscany. The trip was fabulous and we appreciated your guidance throughout the visit. We enjoyed the tour of the cheese farm, the lunch afterwards, and exploring Volterra.

Now, if only we could emulate the crostini with tomatoes, red onion, celery, etc. back here in the U.S!! If not, I guess we’ll have to return to Italy soon.

-Mike

Dear Arianna,
Back in Mexico..after our nice stay in Villa Antonella..
We were so happy in Tuscany that we are thinkiing to go back but this time with ALL my extended family, we are 85 !!
so I am thinking that you know a lot of this area.
We are looking for a hotel with 40 rooms, just All for the family, 4 or 5 stars, in a little village not city, and very child friendly!

I would appreciate you great help.. thank you very much, Cecilia